We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit.
The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.
The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.
If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
Rich people see every dollar as a "seed" that can be planted to earn a hundred more dollars, which can then be replanted to earn a thousand more dollars.
Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum. . you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.
I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.
In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn.
People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.
My money buys me the freedom not to be a member of the corporate structure. And I certainly don't feel guilty or hypocritical about that. The way our economy is set up, if you don't want to be a corporate moron and you don't want to be enfeebled in the streets, you must earn enough to know that you'll never have to go to them for money.
The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.
I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.